Max Fillusch

Max Fillusch (born December 9, 1896 in Warmunthau , Cosel district, Upper Silesia; † February 3, 1965 in Hanover ) was a German politician (NSDAP).

Live and act

After attending elementary school and grammar school in Hirschberg , Fillusch took part in the First World War from 1914 . After training with Jägerbataillon 5, he went to the front on October 21, 1914 with Reservejägerbataillon 5. After being wounded twice, Fillusch was released in August 1918 as a war disabled. After returning home, he made up his Abitur in Breslau. He then studied there until 1920. In the following years he took part in the disputes over the votes in which the citizenship of the Silesian provinces to the German Empire or Poland was decided. From 1921 to 1923 Fillusch was a student trainee at the Borsig factory. In the following years he earned his living as the head of a business enterprise of Mr. von Heydebreck. In 1928 he married. In the same year he started his own business as a businessman.

According to the Reichstag handbook, Fillusch had been active in the "völkisch camp" since 1923. In 1925 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), in which successively various functionaries took over: Until 1933, Fillusch served as local group leader, district leader, managing director and district leader of the NSDAP. In addition, he appeared as a Reich speaker for his party from 1930 . Fillusch had been a member of the Biskupitz municipal council since 1924 . After that he was a member of the Hindenburg city council from 1927 to 1933. Fillusch caused a public sensation when criminal proceedings against him were initiated in 1930 after he had insulted the incumbent Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in a public meeting.

In the general election of September 1930 Fillusch was 9 (Opole) as a candidate of the Nazi Party for the constituency in the parliament elected. His mandate was confirmed in the following six Reichstag elections in July 1932 , November 1932 , March 1933 , November 1933 , March 1936 and May 1938 . In parliamentary meaningless Reichstag in the Nazi era he agreed, among other things for the Enabling Act of 24 March 1933 .

After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in spring 1933, Fillusch was appointed acting mayor of the Silesian town of Hindenburg (today Zabrze) on March 31, 1933 . After he was confirmed in this position in September 1933, he served as mayor of Hindenburg until spring 1945. In this office, Fillusch, who, according to contemporary witnesses, was a “fanatical anti-Semite”, caused a sensation in his community with his unusually harsh actions against the Jews: As early as 1933 - earlier than anywhere else in the Reich - he caused Jewish companies to be disregarded when awarding public contracts Assignments. He also had Jews excluded from public offices, honorary offices and honors, and Jewish traders were denied permission to set up stands.

Fonts

On the interior design of Upper Silesia , 1938.

literature

Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 139 f .

Web links

Literature by and about Max Fillusch in the catalog of the German National Library
Max Fillusch in the database of members of the Reichstag

Individual evidence

^ Gregor Verlande, Wolfram Werner: inventory R 43, Reich Chancellery. P. 806.
↑ Julia Cartarius: Protection and Persecution. The Upper Silesian Jews 1933–1939. In: Heike Mühns, Matthias Weber (ed.): "Thirst for knowledge ...". Research on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe. Two decades of Immanuel Kant scholarship. (= Writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe , Volume 29) Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58153-9 , pp. 119-138, here pp. 124 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Fillusch, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	December 9, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warmunthau , district of Cosel, Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	February 3, 1965
Place of death	Hanover

[1] Gregor Verlande, Wolfram Werner: inventory R 43, Reich Chancellery. P. 806.

[2] Julia Cartarius: Protection and Persecution. The Upper Silesian Jews 1933–1939. In: Heike Mühns, Matthias Weber (ed.): "Thirst for knowledge ...". Research on the culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe. Two decades of Immanuel Kant scholarship. (= Writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe , Volume 29) Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58153-9 , pp. 119-138, here pp. 124 f.